Re: vole damage pics

Are rabbit and deer droppings nearly the same?
No idea, but I've never seen dear anywhere near my place.
Kitty
----- Original Message -----
From: <Cersgarden@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] vole damage pics
> In a message dated 2/29/04 4:13:31 PM, kmrsy@comcast.net writes:
>
> << Hard to tell yet about plant damage. I'm concerned about damage to a
bed
> of
> 100 baby hostas. >>
>
> Kitty, I don't believe they feed on grubs as someone suggested. They like
> plant roots, bulbs, bark, etc. Last spring I found one of my mature Sedum
> 'Autumn Joy' sitting on top of the ground appearing as if someone had
very nicely
> dug the plant. I believe someone on this list experienced the same with
> hosta. This was in the location of the vole evidence. Several yrs ago we
covered
> our roses in 'styrofoam caskets' (lg rect. boxes) until the voles took
> residency inside the caskets and stripped the bark from all the rose
canes. I had to
> trim all the canes back to the ground and returned to the use of cones.
> My neighbor just told me this afternoon, the lg mounds of what I
thought
> was rabbit droppings were deer. Are rabbit and deer droppings nearly the
same?
> Ceres
>
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